Saturday, August 12, 2006
Nothing going right for me.
Yeah.. plane touched down yest morning. finally.
The journey started on wednesday night.. while travelling to the airport around 8 pm.. i was on my way and i saw the fireworks.. on e ERP.. there was a slight jam.. and i realised that drivers are getting out of their cars to watch e fireworks.. making traffic jam.. even e taxi driver was askin if i wanna stop e car to watch e fireworks.. I was like no. I don wanna miss my flight. And yup..
Finally. I reached Jakarta around 10 pm (JKT time) and our company driver picked us up.. Dear Mr Amin. Many first times to start with. Its the first time i sat on a Camry. It was definitely comfortable.. much much more comfortable than Avanza or Innova.. (SUV). And we reached Shangri-la Hotel (Shang) at about 10 plus.. We were taken to the Horizontal Club.. where i suppose its a better service than e normal hotel room in Shang. We then checked in.. and stupid me.. I did ask to increase e amt in my Citibank corporate credit card.. I had to ask my colleague to help me pay first using her mum's credit card. So ma-lu right.. anyway.. This is the first lesson of the day - Never Bring a credit card.. with zero amt. U feel so helpless ..
Yes.. I did post e pics of the room that I was staying. It's really a big room. relatively large la. .. There is some wow factors.. like.. there is speakers in e bathroom.. so that you can hear the TV even when you are bathing.. There was a bathtub.. which i bath for 2 nights after work.. I simply just soaked myself in e lukewarm water.. and relaxed.. I feel so pampered.. =D
i suppose this is just one e little perks that i got from biz trip.. Because i worked till 9 pm on my first day.. and having my dinner around 1130 pm singapore time. It was supposely a good dinner becos.. my co. pay.. we went to eat at a Chinese restaurant in e Hotel. And i had Peking duck, Szechuan sour and spicy soup, beefs, veg at abt 11 plus.. I was damn full. But, I'm not hungry.. I just felt sleepy.. as my face ooz out alot of oil and makin me bit uncomfortable.. We all had our desserts before callin it a day. Even though i felt so bloated.. i ate my Mango pudding.
This is what life is about huh? Food and work. Enjoyin e luxury - with money of cos.. hmm.. That's what businessman do? Sad life isn't it..
oke.. my second day was much fun.. becos my day ends ard 3 pm.. And i did some shopping at Mall Kelapa Gading.. all thanks to our driver - Amin. He had a really busy day that day.. driving us up and down.. from hotel => Co. => Carrefour => Co. => Mall => Co => Hotel.. The driver looks young.. like my age..
The carrefour was really big. Because the driver drove us to the underground multi-storey Carpark.. so as to drop us off.. It is really huge. .. twice the size of the Suntec's carpark.. We din mange to shop e whole Carrefour as we had to leave in 20 mins.. That is because my boss had to rush back office for e TV meeting.
Later, me and minli went to the Mall. It's like Marina Square in Singapore. .U see lotsa of familiar brands like Breadtalk, Giordano, Rotiboy, New Zealand Naturals ice cream.. etc. Its like singapore la.. so e prices ain't any cheaper.. We only did some window shopping.. and I ate Baskin Robbin's ice-cream at the super-mart .. I heard tat there isn't any sellin in Singapore.. I tried the Almond Fudge.. It's nice.. I like it. We then bought our dinner before headin back hotel at abt 6pm. Adi - whom we work closely with in e pricing -team (based in Jakarta) wanted to join us.. but we decided that we are tired.. and just feel like gg back hotel rest.. He is really cheeky.. and his sms really looked like wat a Singaporean would normally text.. btw, he a indonesian. yup..
And off we go back hotel.. It took us quite a while.. like 40 mins? there was a big jam.. Then, i had this imaginary thought. Its really scary like how you watch News.. and people just put fire on a car.. and there you go vanish in e flames.. scary hor.. I mean, its not that scary in Jakarta.. But, you never know..
Blessed to be back.. and yup.. biz trip comin soon.. let me enjoy e clean air of Singapore.. had a migrane over thr..I think its e air over thr.. =)
xinyi is back.. yeah..
p/s: sini.. are you ok? I don know if you are readin this.. do take care ya.. =) bit worried here...